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Vague Desires Lead to Vague Results: Why You're Not Seeing Your Manifestations

• Norma Reyes, PhD. • Season 5 • Episode 144

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Clear and aligned intentions are the key to unlocking your manifestations, especially when you're doing all the right things but not seeing results. Getting specific about what you want sends a clear signal to the universe and creates the energetic alignment needed for your desires to materialize.

• Vague desires create vague results—the universe can't deliver what you're not clear about
• Goals are outcome-focused while intentions are energy-focused, about how you want to feel
• Setting intentions that align with your core values prevents internal resistance
• Ask yourself what energy you want to embody as you work toward your manifestations
• Use present tense language when setting intentions to speak to your subconscious mind
• Visualize and feel what it's like to already be living your intention
• Daily practices like morning intentions, mindful check-ins, and gratitude reinforce alignment
• Manifestation isn't just about wanting something but becoming a vibrational match for it

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Welcome to the Manifesting Latina podcast.

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I'm your host, dr Norma Reyes, a spiritual manifestation coach, and your guide to creating simple spiritual routines that bring more calm, peace and inspiration into your daily life. As a busy, ambitious Latina myself, I learned how to ditch the overwhelm by slowing down and connecting with my inner wisdom, and I want to teach you how to do the same. By listening to this podcast, you'll learn how to expand your mindset, your abundance and your ability to receive without the burnout. So if you're ready to step into your power, elevate your spiritual practice and make manifestation a way of life, you're in the right place. So let's get started. Hey, everyone, welcome back. It's me, dr Norma Reyes, your spiritual manifestation and podcast host, here to help you create simple spiritual routines and bring more calm, peace and inspiration into your life.

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All right, so today's episode we will be diving into the power of clear and aligned intentions, and why getting super specific about what you want is the key to unlocking your manifestations. If you ever felt like you're doing all the things trust me, I know how that feels sometimes and you're not seeing results to manifest what you are desiring, this episode is for you, if you have ever felt like you're doing all the things, everything that the manifestation gurus have told you to do, maybe things that I've suggested that you do, and you are still not not seeing results and you're still not manifesting what you want to desire. This episode is, for you, okay. So the first thing we will be talking about today is why vague desires create vague results. See that to yourself Vague desires equals vague results. So when you're not specific enough, when you're not kind of witty, she washy about what you are wanting, what you're wanting to bring in, you're going to get that wishy washy results. Right, the universe is really going to respond to you and what you are wanting and what you are desiring, and if you're not really sure, or you're kind of changing your mind, you're kind of changing your energy. That's going to be what you get. And that is one of the biggest mistakes I see when it comes to manifesting not being clear enough on what you actually want.

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Now, if you're a first generation, or even if you're not, and you grew up in a family where your desires were second to everything else, whether it be the group, the collective, your family or whoever came first or whoever expected to come first, it might be that you're not really that connected to what it is that you're wanting, and at the end of this episode, I want you to feel that you have tangible steps you can take to start connecting more with your desires and really giving yourself permission to desire. So maybe perhaps you're saying things like I just want to be happy, I want to be successful, I want more money. Those are all things that I will say yes, I do just want to be happy, I do want to be successful and I do want more money. Now, if I just say that, I mean the universe can't really give me what I'm wanting because it doesn't really know right, it's going to mean different things to different people. So what does it actually mean to you? Happiness, success and abundance will look, and do look, different for everyone, and if you're unclear about what it is you truly desire, how can the universe deliver to you?

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This makes me think about when my husband asked me what I want for dinner. You know that inevitable question like what's for dinner, and sometimes you have a really strong craving for something and you say it, and other times you might just be like whatever, you pick whatever, and he picks and everything's great, and then other times he picks something and it's like, nah, I'm not feeling that, nah, I'm not feeling that. And then it's finally like he gets annoyed and is like can you just pick something? Then if you don't, if you, if you don't want what I want, pick something. And that's what we're doing with the universe, right? It's funny to think about because it's easy to see how we might go into this dance of like whatever, I'm just hungry, just I just want food, and then it's not really what you want. So then you kind of go in this back and forth until finally you pick something. Yeah, choosing what's for dinner is sometimes the the most unfun thing to do as an adult.

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So, manifesting what you desire, it is so important for you to be clear and specific so that you can have more aligned opportunities come your way. All right, now that we've kind of cleared that up some, I want you guys to understand the difference between setting goals and intentions. A goal is outcome focused right, it is the end of the journey. It's like the checkbox. It's about what you want to achieve. So an example is I want to make 10k this month.

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An intention is energy focus. It's about how you want to feel and experience the journey. I'm going to say that again how you want to feel and experience the journey. So, for example, you can say I want to show up with confidence and ease in my business this month. It's not outcome focused, but in order to manifest 10K this month, I would need to show up with confidence and ease. And the reason why intentions are so powerful you can even hear it in the difference. Right, the goal is I want to make 10K and then the intention is I wanna show up with confidence and ease.

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And the reason why intentions are so powerful is because they shift your energy into alignment with your desires. You can reach a goal but still feel empty inside because it wasn't connected to what you truly needed at a soul level. Intentions create a sense of fulfillment along the way. They rejuvenate you and that's how you can know if an intention is really in alignment with you, because when it's not, you're not going to really feel good about it. You may reach certain goals and you may have already experienced this in the past may reach certain goals, and you may have already experienced this in the past. Oftentimes people especially with first gens college students they aren't really sure what they want to major in or get a degree in, or they were pushed into a certain degree and they complete it and once they're done with it, it doesn't really feel like anything or much of an accomplishment, because it was like for someone else, it didn't really fulfill their own personal desires. So intentions create a sense of fulfillment along the way and they allow you to manifest from a place of ease rather than flow.

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Here are some questions to ask yourself what energy do I want to embody as I work toward my manifestations? What energy do I want to embody as I work towards my manifestation? Next question how do I want to feel during this process? How do I want to feel during this process? And the third question what impact do I want this desire to have on my life and others? What impact do I want this desire to have on my life and others? Now let me go back to that goal example of I want to make 10K this month. So what energy do I want to embody as I work towards that goal? And as I'm thinking about this, like I want it to be fun and playful and easy. Easy. And how do I want to feel during this process? I want to feel at peace. I want to feel confident, I want to feel joy, and so what impact do I want this desire to have on my life and others?

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I like going back to the example of. I want to manifest 10K this month. I want this manifestation of 10K in my business to uplift me, uplift myself, uplift and empower myself in regards to believing in my business and believing in me and believing that all the decisions and sacrifices that have come to be here in this moment and manifesting this 10K were worth it and that the sacrifices that my family has done and that they see the light at the end of the tunnel. And now that we are like in this massive, like sacrificing kind of mode. But I feel like sometimes some things have been a little bit harder right now as I transitioned from the nine to five to being full-time in my business, to then being part-time in my business because we had the baby, and then coming back to being full-time in my business. So essentially I've only kind of been now about six to seven months, maybe a little bit longer now, full-time in my business Now from July to October, november ish, I would say, even though I was working full-time in my business, I wasn't actually working full time like I was, but I didn't have like a full caseload of clients.

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But now I am having a more consistent full caseload of clients. I'm still not working like nine to five hours, I'm not working 40 hours, but now I'm actually making more, a little bit closer to what I was making before. Not there yet, but I have to remind myself of like the steps, like I've gone forward and back, forward and back, and anytime that we feel like we are going forward and back, I always say this to clients imagine yourself you're not going forward and back, you're just spiraling up a staircase and it feels like you're going in circles because it is a spiral, a spiral going up, and it can make you dizzy. I don't want to get us lost here. Let me get us back on track. So all that to say.

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When you shift from just setting goals to setting aligned intentions, you move from force to flow, from hustle to alignment. All right, then how do we set these powerful, soul inlined intentions, you ask? Now let's talk about how to set intentions that actually work. Number one get clear on your why. Before setting an intention, ask yourself why do I want this? Let me go back to the 10K month. Why do I want to make 10K a month? I want it so that I can be making six figures in my business. I want it so that I can prove to myself that I can do this. I want it so that I can meet my family's needs, meet our financial goals and get out of debt.

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And then, as you just begin to ask yourself and why do I want that and why do I want that? And so you can no longer have an answer to it, be like when you finally get to the because I want to, then you know you have dug in deep as to why you want something. The next question to ask yourself is it because you truly desire it? And yes, I truly desire 10K months? And even as I say that, I'm like I want 20K months and that may be the shift that I need within myself before I can make a 10K month. Perhaps a 10K month isn't as exciting to me anymore.

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And now I am needing to up-level my desire and what I want to attract, which makes total sense, because right now in my business, my practical goal for Q1 was to be making 7K months, and I am. I don't have the numbers right in front of me, but right now I am just under 7K months. And so for Q2, I believe I set the goal for 10K months. I can't remember exactly. Like I said, I don't have my number sheets in front of me, but that, um, as I reflect and share and go through the process with y'all, I mean, yeah, like I am up leveling. And so, since I am up leveling, I am needing to expand my desire to be like I want 20 K month, even when I say I have like this little grin. So if your desire doesn't have a little playful grin, think of maybe when you were a child or any time that you just kind of get a little bit giddy. That's when you know that you are truly connected to the desire.

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And even as I say this, like I want a 10k a month, it sounds very like okay, I want 10k a month. Like it doesn't feel as like exciting, and not that 10k months are not important or that they're nothing they are. Now I'm so excited to say this. I feel like now they are very regulated in my own system. So that's another way for you to know if something is like, if you've reached a level of abundance that you're OK with in 10K. I have. I have reached that Technically, me and my husband combined together probably at almost about 10K. Actually, I was just doing our numbers. So for our income for March not including the rest of this week, as I record this episode is going to be 10K for our total income together. Exciting, okay.

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So next question to ask yourself, right Is it truly what you desire or is it something that you believe you should desire because it's based on society, family or any other external pressure? So it's important for you to reflect on that. I know sometimes, when I say I want to make 120K in my business, I have like this tug and pull, like do I really want to make that, or is that just like what everyone is out there on social media, like make six figures, blah, blah, blah, blah. So that is something that I do have to reflect on, to see like is that it? And even as I say it, I'm like, hmm, yeah, it's something to journal on, because that can be a block in itself, right, If I'm feeling like 120K, like 10K months feel like something less jarring to my nervous system, something more within reach, and 20k months feel exciting, and then you know, big picture, 120k a year feels like, hmm, is that like a goal for someone else or is that a goal for me? So that'd be something for me to definitely journal on. And if you are finding yourself feeling the same way, I would say to journal and reflect a little bit more on, like, okay, what is this emotional reaction trying to tell me? Is there some internal judgments? Is there some judgments that I'm putting out on others that I need to process and reflect and move through me in order to be able to create space to receive the abundance that I'm wanting in my life? Okay, so, as I said, your why should feel exciting and expansive and true to you and, if there's any resistance, dig deeper and refine your intention until it feels aligned and exciting.

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Number two the next thing I want you all to do is use present tense language. Your subconscious mind and the universe responds to the energy of the present moment. So, instead of saying I will be confident, say I am embodying confidence every day. And here's some other examples Instead of I want to be financially free, say I am making aligned choices that support my financial freedom. Instead of saying I want to be in a loving relationship, say I am attracting a deeply loving, supportive partnership, and you can play around with that. Think of some affirmations, some statements that you want to be saying as you're working on manifesting your desire. Number three align your intentions with your core values. Your manifestations will come more easily when they align with your deeper values.

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If your intention contradicts what you believe or value, there will be some internal resistance. So, for example, we'll go with the 20k months that I recently just started feeling a desired excitement for. And If there is a part of me that believes that, in order to have 20K months, it means that I have to work more or sacrifice my time, or sacrifice my time with my family, and then that will block me from being able to bring in 20K into my business, and there will be an internal resistance going on. And so one way to kind of overcome that, if you recognize that already within yourself, is to create a subliminal, and so that'll be an episode for another time. But subliminals are simply affirmations that are layered on top of music, and the affirmations, the statements themselves, are below the threshold of sound. Affirmations, the statements themselves are below the threshold of sound, and so while you can't hear them consciously, your subconscious mind can hear them, and I will tell you, subliminals are very, very powerful and they really get under those blocks that you have. That can help unravel them. For example, if you want to manifest more money, but you hold on to a subconscious belief that wealthy people are greedy, or you know that it's all about capitalism whatever subconscious beliefs that are blocking more money from coming in then your energy is going to be out of alignment in what you are trying to manifest. So you need to get clear on your beliefs and start shifting any limiting ones.

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Next is visualizing and embodying the feeling now. So intentions are not just words, they're energy shifts. So close your eyes right now, but not if you're driving. Close your eyes if you are able to and feel right now what it's like to already be in the reality of your intention. So whenever you are working to manifest, manifesting 20K months, how would you move through your day? How would you speak and think? The confidence, confidence, joy or peace you would feel? The more you embody it now, the faster it's going to manifest.

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So you can take this time to work on feeling and embodying this, and this is actually an activity that I will be doing in my May manifestation power hour. So if you are listening and you are not on my email list. Pause this. Get on my email list so that you can make sure that you are at my next manifestation power hour. So I am having one in April. We will be doing a manifestation bingo card that you are going to create for yourself and, yeah, it's going to be so much fun. So make sure that, if you are not already on my email list to join, and it is completely free. So if you are wanting to just dive a little bit deeper, I absolutely invite you to join me for the manifestation power hours for the month of March. We had a breathwork session that was just so amazing and I will put in the show notes Asha Wilkerson, because she's the one that ran it for us. So if you're interested in learning more about breathwork and other types of healing, I will put that in the show notes.

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Okay, now I want to talk to y'all about daily practices to reinforce your intention. So it's great to set goals, it's great to set intentions, but what is absolutely even more important and more impactful is creating daily practices that reinforce how you want to feel, that reinforce the embodiment, that shift your energy daily, every single day. So now that you have set a powerful intention, how do you keep your energy aligned with it? Here's some simple practices In the morning. You can take time each morning to set an intention for the day. For example, you can write something like today I embody confidence and trust. You can write it down, say it out loud, set a reminder on your phone and you can do that. That's one thing. Every single day, you can do it in a journal, make it a goal for yourself. Every single day, starting today, you're going to write a simple intention that reminds you of what energy to embody. Next, mindful check-ins. So something else you can do if maybe in the morning it's a little too hectic or you want to do some another midday check-in.

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Throughout the day. Pause and ask yourself am I in alignment with my intention? So you can set, you have your intention. You could put it somewhere, put it on your phone, you could put it on a sticky on your desk or wherever it is that you work and ask yourself am I in alignment with my intention? You put some reminders on your phone if you're not very good at remembering these things. I have a lot of reminders everywhere. So I use I love using habit trackers actually to remind me of like oh yeah, this is what I said I wanted to do when you ask yourself if you are not in alignment, take a deep breath and shift your energy back into that alignment. I don't know about John, but breathwork has been calling me lately, anyway.

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So another thing you can do is visualization and meditation. Spend five days visualizing yourself already living your intention. Connect with the emotions of joy, confidence, peace, whatever emotion aligns with your manifestation. Put a five minute timer. You don't need more than five minutes, because if you do more than five minutes, your mind's going to start to wander. And if five minutes feels too long, three minutes, if three minutes feels too long, one minute, whatever amount of time. Set a timer, visualize yourself, feel the energy that you wanna bring in and then allow yourself to embody that energy for the rest of your day. Another daily practice you can do is gratitude and affirmations. At the end of the day, you can celebrate small wins, you can express gratitude for your desires and you can also affirm your intention as if it's already unfolding. I trust that everything is happening for me. I trust that the universe is sending me 20K this month, right, whatever it is that aligns with you.

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Manifestation isn't just about wanting something.

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It's about becoming a vibrational match for it. The clearer your intentions, the more effortless they will manifest. So, as you go about your day today, ask yourself what do I truly desire and how can I embody that energy? Now, if you loved this episode, screenshot it and tag me on Instagram. I'd love to celebrate your spiritual manifestation journey with you. And if you are ready to take your manifestations to the next level, make sure you are in my email list so that you can come to my free manifestation hour hour.

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It is group coaching for women of color, a time to connect and really get any type of help you need in your spiritual manifestation journey, where we will set some powerful intentions together, align your energy and clear any manifestation blocks that you are having. The link is in my show notes. Until next time, keep manifesting with ease and flow. Thank you for tuning in to the Manifesting Latina podcast. I hope today's episode has inspired you to expand your mindset, embrace your spiritual power and manifest with confidence. Remember, growth happens when you allow yourself to receive, and if you love this episode, be sure to subscribe, leave a review and share it with a friend who's ready to expand too. Until next time, keep believing, keep thriving and keep manifesting your best self.

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